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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1933
Page
1
The column threads rumors about a supposed telegraph misreport, Chinese and Japanese war movements, and mass graves near Wickliffe. It surveys U.S. farm price fear, veteran fraud cases in Chicago, and federal budget debates, tying politics, taxes, and leadership into a broad wartime era panorama.
Gov Clyde L Herring urged drastic cuts in operating costs and a full reorganiza tion of state government to aid farmers and lower taxes He called for legislation to support farmer owned marketing agencies curb foreclosures curb agricultural credit abuses and ratification of the lame duck amendment He favored nonpartisan judiciary elections and continued tax reduction work while outlining a survey to overhaul the states financial and administrative setup and abolish boards and commissions in favor of elected officials responsible for spending.
Clyde L. Herring was sworn in as Iowa governor, with Nelson G. Kraschel as lieutenant governor, in a simple inaugural ceremony before a packed joint session. He outlined tax revision, government economy, and farm relief in his address while festivities followed at the statehouse.
William Goodrich Morse 80 son of F B Morse who devised the Morse telegraph code of dots and dashes died Thursday in San Diego. The obituary notes his father's work and Morse family lineage.
The House appropriations committee called for reducing army funds by more than 31 million dollars in the next fiscal year while Chief of Staff MacArthur warned that world conditions are unsettled. The panel reported a war department supply bill totaling 273,079,588 for military activities and 72,753,994 for harbor improvement and other non military work, with the army itself $4,651,253 below Hoover's recommendations.
The Midwinter Iowa State Bridge League tournament in Cedar Rapids starts with 48 players in the Ladies Pair and 16 in the Men's Pair at Hotel Roosevelt. Semi finals and finals are scheduled Friday and Saturday, with W. A. Shaeffer trophy for men and Cedar Rapids trophy for ladies.
Dispatched front reports north of the Great Wall describe Chinese regulars and Manchukuo troops skirmishing near Lichiapao with casualties. A broader mobilization across Shansi and nearby provinces aims to stem the Japanese move on Jehol, despite subzero conditions and encirclement by 10,000 Japanese troops. General Sung Yu-Young, broadcasting from Taiyuan, urged immediate commitment to resist Japan.
Reported by AP that Japanese aircraft scouted over Jehol’s two principal cities Cheng-te and Chao Yang near the Manchurian border. Jehol, capital and summer residence of the Manchu emperors, lies about 140 miles apart.
The farmers national relief conference urged the House agriculture committee to stop foreclosures seizures of property and evictions amid a sales tax debate. Lem Harris said Iowa delegates plan a state relief conference in Des Moines February 15 with participation from farm groups. An Iowa call followed pressure in LeMars as a New York Life agent withdrew a bid on a bankrupt farmer's home.
Senate judiciary panel reported progress on the 3.2 percent beer bill after a long session. Chairman Blaine said a revised measure with another redraft would be ready to vote, clearing tentative provisions to ensure constitutionality and leaving one alternative proposition.
Wilam A. Cant, senior judge of the Minnesota federal district court, died in Duluth after a three week influenza illness. He was 69.
Los Angeles report says Gerald Allen Craig 39 World War II hero and ex USC football star faces attempted murder charges in a plot to kill his socially prominent wife Ethel Investigating officers used a ruse involving a fake gangster The plot allegedly aimed to secure a 90000 inheritance after a quarrel with another woman The wife testified and left in tears Father Jim Morley defends Craig and a grand jury declined to indict earlier
Maurices Ginn, 28, of SW Thirteenth Avenue SW, fled from Grant High School area after throwing a gallon tin of alleged liquor over a fence. Federal Agent Ed Miller tackled him. Ginn was arrested and jailed awaiting arraignment before United States Commissioner Don Hutchison on transportation and illegal possession of liquor charges.
The Greek National Daily Herald reports Samuel Insull, fugitive Chicago magnate, landed in Greece carrying ten million dollars in one thousand dollar bills. A customs agent examined his baggage and found a small bag Delayed handover. Insull refused to release the bag at first then handed it over. The agent warned he would not be allowed to leave with it otherwise.
Moscow reports Premier Molotov proposes replacing grain requisitions with a definite tax in kind for collective farms. The plan would grant peasants more freedom, allow sale of surplus, and hinge on tax sizes and peasant faith, amid prior hopes unmet.
The will of Calvin Coolidge filed in Hampshire county probate court states all estate goes to his wife Grace Coolidge in fee simple. The 75 word document from White House stationery is dated December 20 1926 and signed by Calvin Coolidge with witnesses Everett Sanders Edward T Clark and Erwin C Geisser.
Two gunmen robbed the Commercial and Savings Bank of Berea near Cleveland of $30,000. In a street gun battle as they fled, one bandit was wounded and captured, while the other escaped with the loot.
Governor Clyde L. Herring outlines recommendations to the Iowa legislature including reorganizing state and local government, reducing state costs, revising the tax system, continuing the interim tax work, repealing mandatory taxes, delaying tax sales, fostering farmer owned marketing agencies, updating banking and credit laws for farming, aiding farmers against mortgage abuses, tightening gas tax laws, ratifying the lame duck amendment, promoting cooperation between Iowa borrowers and leaders, and nonpartisan judicial nominations.
Wordy clipping notes headlines about Democrats in the senate Carter Glass and Huey Long clashing over banks. It mentions a Paris debt issue and Japan in China with a sardonic line about attention and war alibis.
New York reports a planned court fight over the Libby Holman Reynolds estate for Zachary Smith Reynolds as his father R. J. Reynolds sets in motion attempts to seize roughly 3 million dollars in trust income and aim for a stake in a 15 million dollar fund.
Glenn Smeeman, a Cleveland businessman, arrived at the state penitentiary in Canon City, escorted by his brother and partner George A. Bronson. He was received as convict number 10 347 after a Denver to penitentary motor car transfer late Thursday.
Geneva based League of Nations members view the incoming president Franklin D. Roosevelt as likely to solve the China Japan confrontation over Manchuria.
Chris Specht, 58, near Anamosa Iowa, hanged himself in his barn after despondency from his wife's death in November and financial worries. He previously attempted suicide with a shotgun twice but failed. Coroner Vorpahl reported no inquest. Sheriff Koameus assisted.
Ray N. Van Doren, vice-president and legal counsel of the Chicago and North Western and of the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railways, died Thursday of heart disease at his Evanston home. Born in Oshkosh Wisconsin 55 years ago, he was a director of the North Western lines and formerly practiced law in Merrill Wisconsin and served as Wisconsin attorney for the North Western road from 1917 to 1921.
New York police report Mrs. Garnett McCabe shot and killed Everett McCabe 45 vice president at United Parcel Service in their Midtown hotel suite after a prolonged quarrel.
The House approved an emergency domestic allotment bill 203 to 151 to fix minimum prices for seven major commodities. The measure faces a wary Senate with opposition from many Democrats and some Republicans.
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